Videocatcher is an Internet television application powered by KDE. Videocatcher makes it easy to subscribe to video channels (RSS/atom feeds etc.) and download new videos. It works as a podcast client as well.

KatchTV

You might want to check out my project, KatchTV, which is also on here. Quite a lot of overlap. KatchTV is probably more feature-complete, but this seems to use more KDE-specific stuff like KIO and be less hackish. Also, KatchTV isn't developed any more, and this clearly is :D Features from both might make a great system though, and you're welcome to borrow as much/little as you need, if code/licenses match :)

Re: KatchTV

KatchTV is incredibly more feature complete! Videocatcher currently doesn't really have any features at all :-) Err yes, there's quite a lot of overlap. Not completely the same though. Unfortunately I'm not really a Python guy, but I'll have a look at the KatchTV code. Are you planning to continue KatchTV development in the future?

Re: Re: KatchTV

Unlikely I'm afraid; I'm not using KDE much these days, and it would need some big changes (but not a rewrite, hopefully) to make it take advantage of KDE4 stuff like phonon and KIO. Also, I've kind of become a convert to the way that Videocatcher and PenguinTV (and many other podcatchers, but not Miro, work). That is, most simply download/convert/manage podcasts, but let a third-party player do the playing in another window. Makes more sense in terms of allowing any kind of content I think, and the unixy do-one-thing-well approach :)

Re: Re: Re: KatchTV

That's a shame. Would be a waste to not have it developed any more :-( That Miro didn't use an external application to play videos was a major annoyance to me, especially when I for a while had no sound with Miro's internal player. The Unixy "do one thing well" is exactly what I'm planning with Videocatcher :-)

Unfortunately there is no Youtube support yet since Youtube doesn't support RSS. I hope to be adding Youtube support later at some point though.

Really Nice, Much Potential!

I really like the idea of a podcast catcher for KDE, I like how you use an external application for the video, which is the greatest reason to hate Amarok as a podcast catcher (I do not like the video widget needed). I see much potential for this. I had a problem building Videocathcher I am on Lucid and have the required packages and could not build, so I used the 9.10 packages. After doing "sudo aptitude install kdepimlibs5-dev libqt4-sql-sqlite libboost-dev" and then using the "make" command (cmake CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=.../usr/ .. /.. works) and get 0 % built.

Interesting that you're using it as a podcast client. I'm using it as a podcast client as well but I mainly had video feeds in mind while developing it. Maybe I should change that.

Great app! Just a bug report

Hello,

I like very much videocatcher. I would like to contribute to report a small bug :
When using for example this channel : http://www.arte.tv/podcast/rss/Court-circuit-off_f.xml
the status of all the episodes is marked as "not available". The link provided by "copy link location" is blank.
However, at first sight, the corresponding file seems pretty OK and the links provided therrein seems to work.

Thanks for videocatcher, and hopefully for your help in sorting out the issue!

Why don't you use phonon for displaying videos? Streaming would be possible, too.

Re: Phonon

Good question. I wanted to create a videocast client where the user can download videos and then play them with his favourite video player. I didn't want to create another bad media player but instead focus on doing one thing (downloading videos) well.

Back when Miro forced me to use it's built in media player I had lots of critical problems with the player, which made it almost impossible to use Miro.

Now that I have the external playback I'm thinking about maybe adding Phonon support as an option, but currently have other things that have higher priority...

Miro or itunes link support.

First, thank you for this really nice application. It does what it should without much ado.
One feature request:
1) Could you please add some support for miro or itunes links. I don't know whether this is much work.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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